You frequently hear the terms “estery” and “phenolic” in sensory descriptions, but what exactly do these terms mean?
One of my favorite approaches to pairing homebrew with food is to simply work the beer itself into the dish with which I plan to serve it.
Hazy beer is usually more cosmetic than catastrophic. But if you find that your homebrew is consistently cloudy, look into one of these common culprits.
From flooded kegerators to midnight wet vac rentals, anyone who kegs his/her homebrew has probably encountered a leak at some point.
The enemies of grain malts are many, and your goal is to eliminate or reduce these adversaries to acceptable levels.
Refractometers are fairly simple devices, but take some time to check out the features so you know what you’re getting.
Don’t snub your nose at malt extract. It is an indispensable ingredient for homebrewers of all kinds.
From heating strike water and mashing in to cooling wort and maintaining fermentation, good beer requires good temperature measurement.